High gardening lovers! I have an issue. (Surprise surprise) . I have 6ladies in 2(us)gal fabric pots and they are drinking themselves dry every day. I can't afford the electric to repot and maintain the vegin light schedule for another 2weeks so after feeding them on 600/700 ppm every day at lights on, I'm diluting the couple of litres of feed left with water, pH it again obviously,and bunging a half litre in each pot just b4 lights out. I'm using hydrogen peroxide every other mix as I do with enzymes. Half strength calmag root boost and GHE Flora trio. I'm bining the run off. Just using the diluted remains of the main feed. I'm not fushing too often as I don't use an overly strong feed mix. If I can keep it up with the topping up with a half litre of diluted mix every day at lights out am I taking a calculated measure or is there any reason that this is going to f'up? Their main feed is always around 20% run off. The pH has been dropping off from 6.5 to 5 9 - 6.2 after weeks of flushing with enzymes to get rid of the soil mix contamination in the coco. But back to my question. Topping the pots up with a half litre at lights out isn't going to be a problem is it. I still feed to good run off at lights on.
Should have repotted.
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twentyeight.threefive
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I would not use diluted feed at the 2nd half of the day. Coco needs to be fed a constant EC feed whenever you fertigate.
You still have time to up pot to something larger, you haven't flipped to flower yet. If need they to be fed twice a day now, imagine how dry they will be after the stretch in flower and in full bloom. I'd do whatever you could to up pot before the flip. You don't want coco to dry.
You still have time to up pot to something larger, you haven't flipped to flower yet. If need they to be fed twice a day now, imagine how dry they will be after the stretch in flower and in full bloom. I'd do whatever you could to up pot before the flip. You don't want coco to dry.
Yeah I see it now, there's no alternative but to re-pot them. They're going into 4gal pots in a couple of hours. Of course there's going to be a very real chance they are going to out grow the tent now but I am going to do my best to take the bottom flower sites off and tie down the rest. Originally I was going for a quick grow hoping to get an oz minimum off each plant. They have grown so good I'm just going to have to do things like be patient.
twentyeight.threefive
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If you end up short of head room with the plants you could try super cropping the tallest branches to give you more space.
I've just started tying them down! I was hoping to remove the bottom two nodes and hoped to get fat top buds in a short time but it's all been so long now I would be stupid to ignore their potential innit